so much negativity... i think it's a good move from microsoft.

[Zappykins]

pauluzzz1981 said:

When the kinect bundle was first announced for 499 dollar i read that people wanted to buy it only without kinect. Now MS has finally decided to remove Kinect and offer it for 399. I think it's a good move and it will help them against the ps4 dominance.

They have invested much money into it and so on, but it's about bold decisions when it's not turning out there way and they did!!

I think it's a very good move! So why all the negativity?

The death of a platform is good news?

 Without Kinect why even bother with an Xbox One Console?  The best reason to get a console is for new and creative experiences to interact and play with the device.  The Wii had motion.  Kinect 1.0 did too, it works well for some things and doesn't for others.  Kinect 2.0 on the Xbox One was the future of innovation far beyond what we already have.

Now it's just a mid level powered PC.  Without Kinect it loses what makes it so special.  I don't think it will help them compete with Sony or help their PR reputation either.  It's just a major fail all around.  It's about as bad news as you could get for Xbox.  Instead of innovation, they are having  fear based reactions.  That never leads to anything but mediocrity.

I would just stick with a PC.  You can add an X1 or PS4 controller to it.  It's more powerful and if Kinect is truly dead you wouldn't be missing out on anything.